The Attic on Eighth — The Attic On Eighth

With the early days of autumn finally upon us, EIC Olivia Gündüz-Willemin shares five things to do this September to embrace the season.

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My First Scottish Summer: An Outfit Retrospective on Autumn Eve

As the summer season comes to an end, Rory Mara takes a look back at her first summer in Scotland, where rain jackets, dark florals, and jeans reign supreme rather than the sundresses of her native Southern Italy.

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Travel Through the Pages: The South

Closing out the summer chapter of our travel series, Creative Director Raquel Reyes brings us to her Southern home, sharing the films, books, music, and art that have shaped her love of the region.

A Room of Want’s Own: Brief Comments on Female Desire in Three Summer Reads (and One Excellent British Tragicomedy)

Writer Rachel Tay explores the topic of female desire in three of the summer’s most popular and poignant reads – Mona Awad’s Bunny, Lara William’s Supper Club, and Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women – before turning to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the phenomenon that was and is Fleabag.

Travel Through the Pages: London

Next up in our favorite new travel series, M.A. McCuen takes us around London in books and films inspired by her lifelong love of the city and recent summer visit.

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Sunday Strolls, Vol. 6: Annecy, France

Languoring in the final days of summer, we take a special nostalgic Sunday Strolls to the Alpine town of Annecy, France, where Olivia, Raquel, and Rory spent a day touring one year ago.

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Travel Through the Pages: Berlin

Continuing our tour of beloved cities through art and literature, contributor Madeline Baker takes us through chilly days and overheated nights in Berlin.

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Coffee Shops of the World: Detroit in Coffee Cups

The latest city to be featured in our coffee shop guides, Detroit gets the star treatment as M.A. McCuen guides us through the city with cups of coffee in hand.

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What We're Reading, Vol. 11

As mid-August arrives, we share what it is we’re reading as summer wanes away at its monumentally stilted pac.

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Graduation – The End of an Education?

Writer and recent graduate Jessica Armstrong discusses life after academia, sharing what it is she’s learned in adjusting to the so-called “real world.”

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Travel Through the Pages: The French Riviera

Launching a new travel series, EIC Olivia Gündüz-Willemin takes us to the South of France through books, films, and more.

Growing Up Through the Pages of Rome

Continuing our unofficial series on Italy, Tilly Nevin travels to Rome through the pages of favorite pieces of writing.

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Self-Care Reminders for the Everyday

In our busy world, EIC Olivia Gündüz-Willemin takes a moment to reflect and shares the most important self-care reminders she lives by in the every day.

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Toni Morrison

“That Toni Morrison has been called our greatest living writer is no coincidence.” On the heartbreaking news of Morrison's passing, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin describes how the Nobel Prize-winning luminary opened worlds with her words.

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On Midsommar

Contributor Zoë G. Burnett reviews Ari Aster’s Midsommar, touching on Midsommar festivities and elements of the unsettling and the collective unconscious in the film.

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